Sustainable Built Environments

Bachelor of Science

A fully online course that fosters awareness and thorough understanding of the qualitative and quantifiable environmental forces that contribute to energy use in buildings. The course introduces basics for understanding solar energy and light, climate and microclimate, and human thermal comfort as related to the built environment.

Understand the quantitative and qualitative factors that contribute to energy flows and consumption in buildings' thermal performance.

Focuses on principles of energy efficient design through investigation of buildings, divided into four categories: baseline, passive design, active design and net-zero building.

Focuses on principles of energy efficient design through investigation of buildings, divided into two categories: energy modeling and energy auditing.

An overview of the interdisciplinary paradigms, principles, programs, and players in the field of heritage conservation ranging from local to international contexts.

The objective of the course is to introduce real estate development students, and those from other majors and programs, to construction management as a component of the real estate development process. The course will introduce students to the fundamentals of building construction, project budget estimation, project management, scheduling, and project leadership. The course will focus both case analyses and discussions of best practices. Industry experts will provide insight and help guide the course substantively. The course will ask students to analyze decisions made by real estate developers about construction management and communicate clearly about construction management and its role in mitigating risk and enhancing project returns.

A case-oriented approach to site selection, rezoning, financing, architectural design, economic feasibility, and other facets of the land development process.

Introduction to Real Estate is an introductory course that provides students interested in the property market introduction and exposure to its people, vocabulary, economic forces, regulatory and environmental frameworks, capital markets, and transaction processes.  By the end of the course, students, via lectures, case presentations, and guest speakers, will be able to: identify, define, and utilize foundational real estate vocabulary; distinguish between forms of property description, contracts, ownership, transaction, and liability issues germane to each; identify, define, and demonstrate the role of regulation in the real estate markets; identify, describe, and discuss the factors shaping estimates of property value and methods used to generate those estimates; identify and describe factors influencing the equity and debt markets as well as the investment of both types of capital; conduct some forms of empirical analysis; and locate, describe, and evaluate various opportunities for employment in the residential and commercial real estate markets. Completion of the course will prepare students well to take state real estate sales licensing courses if they choose to pursue such a pathway.­

There is an interest in assuring that real estate development of the future is more socially, environmentally, and economically responsible than in the past. Emerging research shows that responsible real estate development can produce competitive short-term and superior long-term financial returns. This introductory course will review sweeping changes occurring in real estate development.

This course provides students a review of the legal principles that inform and regulate the due diligence and entitlement process that is the basis of every successful real estate transaction.

The objective of the course is to introduce real estate development students, and those from other majors and programs, to construction management as a component of the real estate development process. The course will introduce students to the fundamentals of building construction, project budget estimation, project management, scheduling, and project leadership. The course will focus both case analyses and discussions of best practices. Industry experts will provide insight and help guide the course substantively. The course will ask students to analyze decisions made by real estate developers about construction management and communicate clearly about construction management and its role in mitigating risk and enhancing project returns.

This course will introduce students to the fundamental concepts of urban design and urban form and the role these play in placemaking in cities, towns and suburbs. The course will cover the work of urban design theorists, variables that impact a community's sense of place, challenges and opportunities in modern city design, and methods to design more livable and sustainable cities.